Jan Hudec (bulb@ucw.cz) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:58:08AM +0100, Christophe Lucas wrote: > > bdev@hss.hns.com (bdev@hss.hns.com) wrote: > > > Hi ! > > > I have this problem. I have two different network interfaces ( A and B ) > > > on my machine. I would like to route IP packets whose destination address is > > > interface B and source address in interface A through the network, ie the packet > > > would get written to the driver for interface A, get routed through the network > > > and return to interface B where the driver for interface B would pick up the > > > packet. This however is not possible normally since the packet would get > > > internally routed within the stack and would never actually make to the physical > > > medium. Is there any work around for this which I could implement by inserting a > > > module or otherwise ? > > > > Please correct me, but you must use masquerading to do this. > > iptables is able to do this. > > Yes. Except you should say NATing, because masquerading is usualy used > for the special case where you SourceNAT all outgoing packets to the > outgoing interface. > > My friend tried to do something like that in BSD some time ago. It's > possible with some wild address mangling except that BSD packetfilter > seemed to be tooo bugy to handle the amount of magic needed. > Sorry for my mispell. Thanks for you explanation on differents between masquerade and nat. -- Regards/Cordialement Iomeda SA (clucas@iomeda.fr) Christophe Lucas -- Developpeur/Administrateur GNU/Linux -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
